Planting plan and mulch



Apr-11 10, 1934. R. B. OTWELL PLANTING PLAN AND MULCH Filed April 22. 1933 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 m w n m m- 00000-00000001/ m m 00000000000 N A 0000000000 0 0 4 000 0 000 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 000 0 0M0 0000 H47. w 0 O O s 0 w 0 m 0 ma Q 000000 000 00 0000 OOOOOOEOOOOO 0 00 0 0 @20 r 0 0000000 0 000 0000 0 3 n ,s 00 000 m 0 020 0 w o 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Patented Apr. 10, 1934 UNITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE PLANTING PLAN AND MULCH Ralph B. Otwell, Detroit, Mich. Application April 22, 1933, Serial No. 667,321

3 Claims. (Cl. 47-9) My invention relates to a method of planting color. The construction and arrangement of the seeds, small growing plants, bulbs or the like, boundary lines of the segregated portions is such according to a predetermined plan, printed upon that they are adapted to readily interlock with mulch-paper for determining the planting locacontiguous, or other boundary or marginal por- 5 tion of each plant of every group of like color tions of the strip. So also, when the conditions 60 or character,-arbitrarily segregated and arare such that afiower bed of greater width than ranged in relation to other seeds, living plants, the planting plan is required for any particular and bulbs, inclosed within segregated areas-the location, a second strip adapted to interlock with object being to produce an efiective and harmoa like strip may be joined wherever it is necessary nious mass combination of color when the plants to enlarge the bed, in order that the flowers 65 blossom or reach maturity. planted upon reaching maturity may present a This planting plan is designed as an improveunited and harmonious effect. ment on that shown and described in Patent No. When bedding seed, or plants through the re- 1,846,274, issued to me February 23rd,-1932. spective openings, a suitable balanced fertilizer The earlier invention comprises a strip of may be deposited through the openings of the 70 mulching paper punched with a plurality of u h pap to receive the plants, thereby openings, surrounding which is printed certain tening the growth, vigor and development of the informative data, adjacent the several openings plants. to indicate the particular seed, bulb, or the like It should also be noted that the mulching strip to be bedded in the soil beneath the respective will have a deterrent effect on the growth of 75 openings. weeds, while serving to retain the moisture sur- In the present invention, a mulching strip of rounding the plants fo their p p w fabric is provided on which is printed a plurality With the foregoing and other objects in view of spaced fixed areas of suitable interlocking which will appear as the description proceeds, the

form, inclosing a multiple number of openings in invention further resides in the combination and so each area, through which plants of like characarr n m n f such il as will b h i ter, like color, or harmonious effect, may be after described and claimed, it being understood bedded in the soil upon which the mulch fabric that changes ay be made n the precise rests,--each interlocking area being suitably inbodiment of the invention herein disclosed withdexed to correspond with like indices on seed out depa t from the Spirit Of the Same 8 packages, small plants, or bulbs inclosed in num- In the drawing accompanying'this specification: bered envelopes, whereby the gardener may Figure 1 is a p View Of a mulching Strip of readily and respectively determine their profabric indicating a plurality of bounded interposed locations by bedding them in the soil locking segregated areas, within which are rethrough the correspondingly indexed openings in spectively grouped a plural number of openings the mulching strip,thereby carrying into effect through which Seeds. plants, the like may be a predetermined effective and harmonious plantbedded in the soil, beneath the openings in the ing plan. strip, on which the mulching fabric is laid.

One of the advantages of a planting scheme Figure 2 is a modification of the mulching strip,

40 embodying a plurality of segregated areas for the shown in the preceding figure, indicating a variarespective grouping of like plants, or color effects, tion in the form o the interlocking p o s of is that it provides the gardener with a definite the mulching strip surrounding the respective dependable plan, which if necessary he may groups of openings in its segregated areas, said readily divide to meet the conditions surrounding areas being numbered or otherwise indexed to 45 various locations, requiring different treatment conform to a corresponding indicia printed upon to insure an effective planting. For example, packages of seeds, individually tagged plants, or if the location of the proposed flower bed is such envelopes containing b1l1b$,t0 be bedded in the that a relatively large area is to be bedded with soil through the resp v Openingscertain plants or flowers to produce a desired Referring new to the reference ac ers 50 massed effect, the gardener may detach portions placed p the awi of the planting plan along the lines bounding A denotes a Strip of mulching fabric p v d d different segregated areas, that they may be con- W th a p u y of Openings exposing p t s nected with interlocking portions grouped in of a previously prepared seed bed when laid upon other,or adjacent relation, thereby providing the ground in which the seed, plants or the like 55 an increased area of plants of like character or are to be bedded. The openings B, are grouped til and segregated from other like groups by interlocking scored boundary lines C, whereby the gardener when desiring to change the arrangement of the respective groupings may divide the mulching strip or plan along the boundary lines dividing the segregated groups of openings.

The boundary lines are adapted to interlock with the boundary lines of other portions of the strip when out to receive the interlocking portion previously separated therefrom.

Each segregated area is numbered for example: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.,or they may be otherwise indexed to correspond with a like number or indicia printed upon packages or envelopes containing the plants or seeds designed to be embedded in the soil through the opening in the strip of the respective segregated areas.

As indicated, the purpose of this invention is to provide a planting plat or plan, printed on mulching paper, provided with a plurality of grouped openings, the respective groups of openings being separated by boundary lines defining an interlocking contour, whereby the gardener may adapt the plan to different locations or conditions by separating portions of the strip along the line bounding the contour of any group of openings that it may be transferred and interlocked with other portions of the strip to provide the necessary massed efiect at any particular 10- cation,each segregated group being numbered to correspond with numbers employed on the seed packages, plants, or envelopes containing bulbs to be planted;thus the gardener may readily select the seeds or plants for each particular group and thereby insure the desired harmony of color, necessary for an effective planting.

The name of the plants or flowers may also if desired be printed within the boundary line surrounding each group of plants, with data concerning the care and time for planting included, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A pattern planting strip having a plurality of groups of openings bounded and separated by interlocking scored lines of demarcation, along which the strip may be divided, whereby portions of the strip may be shifted to interlock with other portions of the strip as may be desired.

2. A pattern planting strip of mulching fabric having a plurality of groups of openings through the strip, bounded by interlocking scored lines of demarcation separating the groups of openings of each area; means for indexing each area or group to correspond with an index printed upon plant and seed packages, whereby seeds and plants having a corresponding index may be bedded in the soil through the openings on which the plan is laid.

3. A combined interlocking planting plan comprising a strip of mulching fabric, having a plural number of openings arranged in segregated groups; an interlocking scored border line bounding each group of openings, adapted when separated on the line from the body of the strip to interlock with other interlocking portions of the strip, whereby the size and form of said planting area may be altered, enlarged, or reduced and thereby adapted for different locations; and an indexing means for each segregated group of openings, adapted to correspond with the respec tive indicia of seed packages, plant wrappers, or bulb envelopes, whereby certain seeds, plants, or bulbs, of predetermined kind may be readily bedded in the soil through the respective openings in the planting plan and mulching strip.

RALPH B. OTWELL. 

